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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
I'm a Proud Navajo, Father, Husband, Brother, Son, and Friend. I'm all about cheap thrills, guitar pickin', and writing about the adventures of my life. I'm never politically correct.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

a damned shame.....


Y'know what? There were grown men camped out in the parking lot at my work because the Target was next door......and for what? A damned X BOX 360. Ain't that some sad shit? A video game console. The last time I camped out for something it was for the morning sun, a wet fly, and some hot coffee. Wow, where our priorities are nowadays....and it was a school night!!! When I was a kid, video games were out but we didn't form our lives around it, no, we used our imaginations and still had a buttload of fun running around in the hills, climbing trees, riding our bikes, playing baseball and football. Isn't it a damned shame? I guess there has to be somebody to flip burgers between gaming sessions.

Now if they were 50 yard line Superbowl XL tickets and the Steelers were playing........then that's a whole different idea.

Rock on.

P.S. An XBOX 360 just sold on Ebay for $9000!!! Damn, I'm in the wrong business.......I wonder how much I can get for my old Colecovision? Hey, if you Simm freaks and thumb rangers want to see some kick ass graphics, just give me the $400 and I'll just kick you in the nuts and when you're squirmin' around on the ground with your eyes clinched shut ... graphics so awesome from your own imagination will come in ten fold, I promise.

Monday, November 21, 2005

I'm a pinonaholic

Curley's nut sack
I'm like on my umpteenth sack of pinon nuts. My tongue is run ragged, my finger tips are pruny, and nothing tastes right.......but I need more...more, more, more.


AAARRRRRGGGGHHHH....I think I tore my sack!!! OH, the HORROR!!!

Friday, November 11, 2005

It comes.......the Mothership is near..... all ye who believe...... come forth....... the time is upon us.....


Have any of you ever noticed that at a certain time of the day, the digital clock just happens to be exactly 11:11?
I have. It is indeed a weird occurrence and one that is experienced by thousands, maybe millions, of people. I first noticed it way back when I was a little dude with a paper route. I won a digital watch from the Gallup Independent newspaper because I signed up the most new customers on my newspaper route. Ever since then, I began to notice the 11:11 occurrence on that watch and my clock radio. Now believe me, I wasn't contemplating the actual time but it just happened to occur at times when people asked for the time at 11:11, when I responded to fire pages at exactly 11:11 or at 23:11, or that I was up late doing homework and my mom would yell at me at exactly 11:11.

11:11

Tomorrow is 11/11

The Mothership is arriving at 11:11

Freaked out huh......check the time........it's 11:11 isn't it...

Did you all now that there are societies and cults that observe the time 11:11? Yep, there is. I didn't realize there was more people like me....

NVISIBLE

GOOGLE 11:11.....there's alot more

We shall come together and worship our saviors Danny White and Drew Bledsoe...It must continue...it is our destiny......

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Happy Birthday Juvin!!!!

Me and my brother Alex
Miss you around here even though you cheat at golf.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

The old stompin' grounds...


I had a site visit yesterday and the trip took me through the my old stomping grounds...... Window Rock, Arizona. Normally, I wouldn't go there on purpose and even much less Gallup. I've just got too many unsettling memories of my childhood that I much rather leave there to be forgotten. But, much of it came back to me when I saw the old place I used to call home.

Not all my memories of Window Rock are bad. I remember riding my bike all over the place with my buddies Morris, Mihio, and Adrian. We'd go down to Pizza and Cream, the WR Cinema, Royal Burger, and Fed-Mart. If you remember these places, yeah, it's been a while. I also remember walking around with my friends at night to all over and all we feared was an angry dog.

I saw the rocks we used to climb, including the Window Rock, the trees we used to climb, the lady's house we knew we could get a drink of water if we wanted (now boarded up), the trails we used to race on, and places we used to party at when we got older.

I also saw the place where I responded as a fire fighter to an accident that killed a couple of people, the place that I used to escape to when my step dad would come home drunk, the house that my old girlfriend lived in, the road where I bailed from her car when she just wouldn't stop yelling at me, and the place where she hit me with a car. Yeah, the shit memories. The memories that made me tougher and smarter. I hate them but I would still welcome them because they made me who I am now. Hopefully for the better.

We went on to Ganado and I took a trip, yeah...kinda like those but with out the substance. I remember packing my helmet and pads and stashing under the bus that Justin drove and jumping into my seat and donned my headphones. My buddy, Cedric or Jonny, would pile in next to me and we'd crack jokes about kiss ass teammates and how what's-her-name looked in those tight stonewashed jeans during Algebra.....whoa. We'd all get going because this trip was on a Friday night. Game Night. It would start getting darker as we passed over the summit. Coach would call us up to the front of the bus one by one to make sure we knew what to do to beat the Hornets. As we rolled into town the field was all lit up just to the north....fresh paint on the grass, refs, stands filled with maroon on one side and Columbia blue on the other, marching bands, and oh yes, the cheerleaders. Poof.......now it's 2005 and I'm 34, married with children and a mortgage.

Man, what a trip.

Oh well, that's what life is.

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Donned my parachute pants and union jack t-shirt, dammit, where's my mullet?


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Last night I went to the Def Leppard concert at the Tingley Coliseum here in Albuquerque. Damn, I thought I was going to be one of the old cats there but there were far older folks that managed to shake their asses at this gig.

Since I've moved to the Albuquerque area I've been able to see a few acts that I wasn't able to see when I was kid. I've been to a few shows when I was younger but alot of the groups either died off or broke up so I wasn't able to see acts like Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Queensryche, and Judas Priest. Now we are in a time where there are comebacks and revivals....man, I could probably actually see Keel, Krokus, or Loudness. Ha ha. Oh well, somethings should be left dead.

Well, it was a kick ass show. It was good to go back into ol' Tingley Coliseum and relive some old memories like when Ozzy Osbourne played with an opening act called Metallica in 1986. Those were the days.

P.S. I was going to stay around back of Tingley Coliseum to meet the band because I really wanted to ask Joe Elliot a question that's been on my mind for a couple of years............is it really true about you in that chain letter?

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

The 'Burbs


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Originally uploaded by jaecee.
We had one heck of nice evening.

Trick-or-treating here in the burbs of Rio Rancho is alot different than running from dogs and dlaanii's on Manuelito Ave. in Window Rock. We actually got some good loot.

The girls both had fun trick-or-treating and we had a few friends over for some cocktails and pizza, and the Steelers won....it couldn't get any better than this.